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While Michael Raelert pulled an upset and upstaged his older brother Andreas's impressive second place debut last year, Julie Dibens redeemed two disappointing fourth place finishes and fulfilled a long held dream to win a world title on pavement. Along the way, Raelert smashed last year's already impressive world record time by six minutes with his 3:34:10 clocking and Julie Dibens broke the four hour barrier for women at the 70.3 distance by 27 seconds with a 3:59:33 mark. However easy the course itself may have been, bereft of hills as it is, the sheer speed left a lot of high quality wreckage outside the top 10. A pre race chilly northeaster whipped up waves and chop, forcing WTC officials to move the swim from the open Gulf to the protected waters of the harbor.

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